Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Linked Open Hesperia Bibliographic Citations

[First posted in AWOL 19 June 2012, updated 24 June 2014]

Bibliographic citation data for 1,500+ Hesperia articles are now freely available on the Zotero
platform. Zotero is a widely used, open bibliography tool that helps
scholars collect, organize, cite, and share research sources.

Researchers who use Zotero while writing articles and books that reference Hesperia articles can download citation data by visiting the ASCSA’s group page. You can choose to browse the collection of articles from 1932 to 2012 by volume year, or you can search with keywords across all articles.

When you find a citation you need, you can download that data to your
own collection of research bibliography. Zotero will automatically
format it in the style of your choice (e.g., Chicago Manual of Style).
Citation data include article title/subtitle, author, abstract,
volume/issue/page numbers, and publication date.

For those researchers with access to JSTOR, Zotero citation entries for Hesperia also contain links to the articles themselves. Once older volumes of Hesperia (1932–2009) become available online for free later this year, these links will be updated to point to the ASCSA’s website.

ASCSA monographs are also on Zotero in the “ASCSA Books” collection,
organized by series (e.g., Corinth, Isthmia). This is a work in
progress, with about 70 more books to be added to complete the open
bibliography of all ASCSA publications...

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.